23/08/23 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission paid, on Tuesday 22 August, a further tranche of €1.5 billion to Ukraine as part of the €18 billion Macro-financial Assistance that the European Union has granted for 2023. This assistance is being used to fund the immediate needs of a country in the grip of Russian military aggression: paying civil servants’ salaries and pensions, maintaining public services, rehousing displaced persons and repairing critical...